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  2. Handcar - Wikipedia

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    3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind.

  3. Passenger railroad car - Wikipedia

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    Many American passenger trains, particularly the long distance ones, included a car at the end of the train called an observation car. Until about the 1930s, these had an open-air platform at the rear, the "observation platform". These evolved into the closed end car, usually with a rounded end which was still called an "observation car".

  4. Railroad car - Wikipedia

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    A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).

  5. Hand truck - Wikipedia

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    A hand truck. A hand truck, also known as a hand trolley, dolly, stack truck, trundler, box cart, sack barrow, cart, sack truck, two wheeler, or bag barrow, is an L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end, wheels at the base, with a small ledge to set objects on, flat against the floor when the hand truck is upright. [1]

  6. List of bridge failures - Wikipedia

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    Two trucks were crossing the bridge when one struck a tie rod causing the bridge to collapse. One truck fell 15 feet to the creek bed, and the other escaped to safety. 4 killed, 5 injured [28] Kasai River Bridge Kasaï: Belgian Congo 12 September 1937: Railway bridge While under construction. Began in 1935; construction never resumed.

  7. Doodlebug (railcar) - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The name is said to have derived from the insect-like appearance of the units, as well as the slow speeds at which they would doddle or "doodle" down the tracks. [4] Early models were usually powered by a gasoline engine, with either a mechanical drive train or a generator providing electricity to traction motors ("gas-electrics").

  8. Funicular - Wikipedia

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    The two cars of the Petřín funicular—one of them is about to call at Nebozízek station (seen in the foreground), while the other will stop and wait for it to exchange passengers. The majority of funiculars have two stations, one at each end of the track. However, some systems have been built with additional intermediate stations. Because ...

  9. Autorack - Wikipedia

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    The circus solution to loading vehicles was to use a string of flatcars. A temporary ramp was placed at the end of the flatcars and temporary bridge plates spanned the gaps between adjacent flatcars; the road vehicles were driven or towed up onto one car and then driven or towed down the train.

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